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August 14, 2022

Featured Member News

stc academy offers educational programs for gamers and game developers this gamers season

stc Academy participated in the gamers season, the largest sports and electronic games event in the world, by providing a set of training programs and workshops to train and develop players and game developers in Riyadh City Boulevard...

Member News

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Nokia successfully trials 1-Terabit live optical network

The trial was conducted in a live network environment, where PTCL Metro Transport Network was upgraded to 1-Terabit per channel, extending its capacity to extreme speeds of 32-Terabit per fiber...

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Huawei 2022 H1 financial results reveal solid performance with a focus on the future

In 2022 H1, Huawei generated US$45 billion in revenue, with a net profit margin of 5.0%...

Recent Developments

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stc boosts the 5G network capacity by over 60%

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Cisco and Celcom enhances mobile connectivity experience for Malaysians

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AT&T contributes US$1 million to New Dallas Innovation Alliance Program

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Zain joins UN Global Compact initiative for responsible business practices

Policy and Regulation

•	Media registration now open for ITU Plenipotentiary Conference Media registration is open for the forthcoming Plenipotentiary Conference of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), set to take place in Bucharest, Romania, between 26 September and 14 October...

•	TDRA concludes its virtual camp The Camp saw the participation of 3026 UAE-national and resident students, of whom 47% were females and 53% males...

Middle East

•	Digital payments exceed cash for first time in Saudi Arabia with 94% transaction value Electronic payments exceeded the use of cash for the first time in Saudi Arabia in 2021, with these transactions representing 94 percent of all payments when measured by value...

•	Digitally enabled Godel joins NextGenFDI programme Godel Technologies, a UK-based agile software development firm founded in 2002, has become the latest digitally oriented business to join the UAE’s landmark NextGenFDI initiative...

•	World Cyber Security Summit to kick off in Amman on August 15 The World Cyber Security Summit is part of a global series brought to Jordan by Trescon, a global business events and consulting firm that specialises in hosting future-tech events across the world...

Content & Immersive Technologies

•	Paramount+ to launch in Italy US SVOD Paramount+ will launch in Italy on 15 September as part of its European rollout...

•	Operator VOD services grow in Russia On demand services in Russia offered by operators had total revenues of R7 billion (US$114 million) in the first half of this year...

Satellite & Internet

•	Oneweb and Intelsat to give airlines broadband Satellite operators OneWeb and Intelsat have signed a global distribution partnership agreement to offer airlines inflight broadband...

•	Kazakhtelecom aims to migrate 550,000 DSL lines to fiber/FWA KT reported in its recently-published annual report that its total fixed broadband internet subscription base reached 1.86 million at end-2021, up from 1.83 million a year earlier...

South Asia

•	Tech Valley and Beaconhouse sign MoU to digitise education Additionally, Tech Valley will conduct trainings for teachers and admin staff to help them effectively utilise Google technologies such as Google Workspace and Google Cloud Platform...

•	VEON’s Banglalink signs tower sharing agreement in Bangladesh The initiative will enhance Banglalink’s quality of services further by supporting its 4G expansion drive, ensuring energy-efficient operations and optimizing the use of Bangladesh’s national resources...

North Africa

•	Internet link proposed for Morocco, Mauritania and Western Sahara Such an initiative could also reinforce the African Coast to Europe (ACE) cable to which Mauritania was connected in 2011 and on which it mainly relies for high-speed internet services...

•	Egypt’s BONBELL seeks a US$10 million in seed funding BONBELL, the first mobile app in the food-tech industry specialized in food ordering, digital solutions for table and meal reservations, has closed an initial funding round for US$350,000 through a Canadian Angel investor...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	SmarTone announces October shutdown for 2G network The operator noted that the 900MHz and 1800MHz spectrum resources currently deployed for its 2G infrastructure will be reallocated for use in its 4G and 5G networks...

•	Chinese telecom operators spend 400 billion yuan(US$59.4 billion) in 5G China has some 1.85 million 5G base stations and more than 450 million 5G end users, both accounting for over 60 percent of the global total, the conference said...

Global Telecom Update

•	Malaysia and Thailand join Google’s cloud regions Google says digital tools offered by cloud computing are fuelling transformation around the world, including in Asia-Pacific...

•	SEACOM partners with BT for enterprise cybersecurity The agreement will see BT offer a range of services to SEACOM’s enterprise customers in Africa, including networking, security, and communication services...

•	Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom building new data center in Taoyuan Chunghwa currently operates a number of data centers across Thailand through its HiNet unit it says totals more than 180,000 square meters (1.93 million sq ft)...

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